Ebook: Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
Author: Olyan Saul M
- Tags: Bible / Old Testament, Bible / Old Testament / Criticism interpretation etc, Criticism interpretation etc, Freundschaft, Friendship / Biblical teaching, Bibel. -- Altes Testament
- Series: The Anchor Yale Bible reference library
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven;London
- Language: English
- epub
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible
Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly because of its complexity and elusiveness. Filling a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of biblical texts, Saul M. Olyan provides this original, accessible analysis of a key form of social relationship. In this thorough and compelling assessment, Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira. This in-depth, contextually sensitive, and theoretically engaged study explores how the expectations of friends and family members overlap and differ, examining, among other things, characteristics that make the friend a distinct social actor; failed friendship; and friendships in narratives...